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VOLUME 72 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1968 NUMBER 5
Lieut. Governor Bob Scott in the upper picture talks with
a group of high school students. In picture at right he is shown
speaking to a group of some 50 persons. Seated at right is Erich
Hecht of Norlina who presented Scott.
Scott Makes Appearance
At Dinner Here Friday
Who shall operate the Uni
versity of North Carolina Is
not apt to be a major Issue
in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor
of North Carolina.
The University of North Car
olina should be run by the trus
tees, Lieut. Governor Bob
Scott told a representative of
The Warren Record here last
Friday in answer to a direct
question.
According to an unimpeach
able source in Raleigh, Scott's
chief rival for the Democratic
nomination, J. Melville Brough
ton, has expressed the same
views. The views of Dr. Regin
ald Hawkins, the third man to
enter the Democratic race for
nomination for Governor, are
not known. However, they were
not a part of his platform.
Scott, a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for
Governor, was in Warrenton
Friday afternoon on a get-ac
quainted tour with Warren citi
zens, and was honored at a
dinner at Warren Plaza Inn by
Amos Capps, chairman of the
Board of Warren County Com
missioners. County Attorney
Jim Limer presided over the
meeting attended by some 50
persons including heads of civic
organizations and the mayors
of Warrenton and Norlina.
Presented by Erich Hecht of
Norlina, Scott said that his cam
paign would be short on promis
es. He said that he did not know
the answers to many questions
perplexing the citizens, and
could only promise to work for
what he considers the best in
terest of the State. He said that
he feels that in the final analy
sis a candidate should be judg
ed on character and integrity
and not on promises. On this
premise he said he asks the
vote of the citizens of Warren
County.
Following his brief talk, Scott
said that he would be glad to
answer any questions that he
could, but none were asked.
Afterwards he talked with a
group of high school students
before leaving for a speaking
engagement in Franklin County.
four New Varieties Of
Tobacco Are Available
The four new tobacco varie
ties available for the 1968 pro
duction season are described in
the Official Variety Research
Report No. 24 now available to
farmers and agricultural work
ers.
This publication gives detail
data on agronomic and chemical
characteristics ofthesenew va
rieties plus Information on the
11 most commonly planted
tobacco varieties within the
flue-cured area.
In 1967 data were secured
from five experiment stations in
North Carolina ? Whlteville,
Klnston, Rocky Mount, Oxford
and Reldsvllle. Disease resist
ance was obtained on each entry
from green house and field
plots by pathological workers
from Virginia to Florida. This
Includes the level of resistance
of each variety to black shank,
granville wilt, fusarlum wilt,
brown spot and root knot nema
todes.
Agronomic information is
given on yield per acre, dollar
value per acre, dollar value per
pound, days to flower, leaves
per plant and height per plant
In inches. With the interest In
mechanical harvesting increas
ing each year, a. detailed phy
sical description of each variety
can be obtained from data on
the interlude length for three
?talk positions.
The width and length of the
5th, 10th and 15th leaf are
shown In Inches for each of the
varieties and new breeding lines
included In the test.
Leaf samples were obtained
from cored tobacco of each
entry and analysed for nicotine,
non-nicotine, soluble sugar and
total nitrogen. Ratios were
computed for the total nitrogen
nicotine and sugar-nlcotlne
ranges.
Farmers and agricultural
workers can use the Informa
tion presented In this report to
make comparisons of varietal
performance In their specific
area or on a state-wide basis.
Official Variety Research
Report No. 24 Is available at
county agricultural extension
offices or may be obtained on
request from Dr. John Rice,
Department of Crop Science, N.
C. State University, Raleigh,
N.C. 27607.
No Major Dairy
Change Expected
Any major change In the cur
rent U. S. and North Carolina
dairy situations In 1968 would
surprise the experts. They an
ticipate . a period of relative
stability.
Henry A, Homme, extension
economist at North Carolina
Stat* University, says the dairy
outlook for the coming year
Indicates national and state milk
production will about equal that
of 1907 with prices holding
steady.
mur production in the U. 8.
dropped slightly in 1947. North
Carolina production Increased
slightly. North Carolina Orade
A milk averaged close to $6.40
Mmds for milk
3.5 per cent butterfnt.
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Public Drunkness, Bad
Check Cases Are Tried
One case of public drunkness
and three cases of worth
less checks kept the entire
Warren County Recorder's
Court docket from being solely
occupied with traffic cases last
Friday.
Raymond Whittemore pled
guilty toasecondoffenseof pub
lic drunkenness and was order
ed committed to the custody of
the Director of the Department
of Correction for not less than
30 days nor more than six
months.
Archie Johnson was sen
tenced to the roads for 60 days
when he pled guilty to a charge
of giving a worthless check.
Aaron S. Thompson pled guil
ty to two charges of giving a
worthless check and was sen
tenced to the roads for 60
days on each count.
Donald Ray West was order
ed to pay a $25 fine and court
costs when he pled guilty to a
charge of having no operator's
license.
Lawrence William Seaman,
Jr., pled guilty to a charge of
reckless driving and was or
dered to pay a $25 fine and court
costs.
Samuel Earlie Jones was or
dered to pay a$25 fine and court
costs when he pled guilty to a
charge of having no operator's
license.
P. K. Person pled guilty to a
charge of having improper
equipment on his motor vehicle
and was ordered to pay court
costs.
Andrew Jackson Warmack,
Jr., was taxed with court costs
when he pled guilty to a charge
of speeding 45 miles per hour
in a 35 mph zone.
Clyde Hunter Wagner, charg
ed with speeding 45 miles per
hour in a 25 mph zone, was
found guilty of speeding 30 miles
per hour in a 25 mph zone. He
was order d to pay court costs.
Defendants In other speeding
cases and verdicts of the court
were as follows:
Grady Edward Tunstall,
costs; Wlllard Wilson Lovelace,
costs; Howard M. Beard, costs;
William McClinton Turner,
costs; Thomas Earl Peace,
costs.
Cub Scout Pack Formed
At Oak Chapel Church
Oak Chapel A. M. E. Church
here was presented a Cub Scout
Charter Sunday, representing
the youngest and newest pack
to be organized and chartered
In Warren County. Hie number
of the new pack Is 957.
The service on Sunday was
presided over by Cub Master
John J. Hawkins. L. B. Hen
derson, principal of Hawkins
High School, handled the pinning
of the Bob Cat plus and charg
ed the parents of the OAs with
their responsibilities to
pack. ?r. B.
ter of Troop 133, presented
registration cards to the Cabs
and Den Mothers.
J. B. Lacy, Scout Executive
and Joe H. Beachum, presented
registration cards to the Scout
Master and to the assistant.
Dr. Sam Massey, Moratoc Dis
trict Chairman, presented the
charter to the church officials.
The pastor of the chartered
organisation U the Rev. L. C.
Cooper, Jr. The Institutional
representative la Cleveland An
derson. AM Dowtln is chalr
$35,000
Grant
Approved
The Economic Development
Administration has approved a
$35,000 grant for the replace
ment of Warrenton's storage
tank destroyed in a fire here
on last Aug. 15.
Notice of the approval of the
grant was released Monday
from the offices of Congress
man L. H. Fountain and Sena
tor B. Everett Jordan. This
newspaper was also notified
Monday that the grant had been
approved by the office of Gov
ernor Dan K. Moore.
Mayor W. A. Miles, In ex
pressing his pleasure that the
grant had been approved, said
that Rep. Fountain and Senator
B. Everette Jordan and Sena
tor Sam Ervin, Jr., had been
very helpful.
The town signed a contract
Tuesday with R. D. Cole Manu
facturing Company, of Newnan,
Ga., for the erection of the tank,
connections and fencing at a
total cost of $52,553.
J. Ed Rooker, Town Manager,
said that the contractor has
180 days to complete the job.
Heart Fund
Chairmen
Appointed
Heart Fund chairmen for
Warren County were announc
ed yesterday by Mrs. Wiley G.
Coleman, Warren County Heart
Association President. They
are:
Mrs. A. M. Allen, Warrenton;
Paul Lancaster, Norlina; Wil
lis Harvey, Littleton; William
Hicks of Norlina, rural chair
man.
These chairmen will appoint
various activity chairmen for
their communities and dii cct
their efforts during the North
Carolina and American Heart
Associations' drives in Febru
ary, Heart Month.
Mrs. Coleman pointed out that
heart disease is still the lead
ing killer in Warren County as
it is in the state and nation.
Last year some 23,000 North
Carolinians died as a result of
cardiovascular disease.
Mrs. Coleman said that the
Heart Association gives the
residents of Warren County an
opportunity to help wipe out this
leading killer.
Cigaret Plan Draws
Fire Of Mangum
RALEIGH - B. C. Mangum,
president of the N, C. Farm
Bureau, fired back at the Post
Office Department today for its
announced plans to "Join the
government's war on cigarette
smoking in February."
Shaken by the Department's
plans to place 55,000 anti
smoking posters on-mail trucks
throughout the nation, Mangum
said?"If the Post Office De
partment would spend their
time and efforts trying to de
vise ways to run that organiza
tion more efficiently, we
wouldn't be saddled with a post
al rate Increase every few
years."
"It is a sad day," the farm
leader said, "when we arrive
at the point where a branch of
the government feels the neces
sity of mounting a propaganda
campaign against the tobacco
Industry?especially when there
Is no medical proof."
Regarding the posters claim
that 100,000 doctors have quit
smoking. Mangum posed the
question: "Where did they get
their information?"
"Certainly," Mangum con
tinued, "right thinking people,
regardless of their proximity
to tobacco growing regions, will
not allow the Post Office De
partment-using tax funds?to
Join In helping to destroy a vital
segment of our economy."
Mangum pointed out that the
tobacco industry in the United
States paid nearly 4 billion
dollars to the Federal Govern
ment last year In excise tax
four times as much as tobacco
farmera received for the tobac
co crop.
Hosiery Mill To Be
Operated At Wise
Operations
May Begin
By March 1
Warren Hosiery Mill, War
ren County's newest industry,
is expected to be in operation
on or before March 1.
The mill, said to be private
ly owned by a Burlington bus
iness man, will be located in the
old Perkinson automobile
agency building at Wise, and
will make the upper parts of
hosiery tights. Knitting and
dyeing of the tights will be done
in other plants.
Mrs. Quay Quick of Norlina,
manager of the plant, said yes
terday that machinery is ex
pected to arrivebythe middleof
February and that it is hoped
that the plant will begin opera
tion on or before March 1.
She said that maximum em
ployment at this time is expect
ed to be around 15 with ten
machine operators, and five
others engaged in other work.
Applications from prospec
tive workers will be received
at the plant today (Thursday)
and Friday from 9 a. m. to
5:30 p. m.
SPEED
Jas. Speed
Announces
Candidacy
LOUISBURG - James D.
Speed, prominent farmer and
tobacco warehouseman and a
member of the legislature since
1961, formally announced to
day that he is a candidate for
re-election in the 16th House
District subject to the May 4
Democratic primary.
Speed, chairman of the im
portant House Agriculture
Committee during the 1967 ses
sion, held one of the two 16th
District seats. He was the lead
ing vote-getter in a field of
five cai. lidates In the 1966 pri
mary and led the general elec
tion ballot In his home county,
Franklin, In November, 1966.
He declared for Seat No. 1
of the two seats allotted to the
district, Franklin, Warren and
Vance Counties, saying "the
people of the district gave me a
big vote of confidence during
the primary and general elec
tion of 1966. For this, I shall
always be grateful."
Speed lives in the Gold Sand
section of Franklin County. "My
farm and my residence are
located in the Northern part of
Franklin County which is almost
the geographic canter of the
Sixteenth District. My work has
afforded me the opportunity of
knowing a large number of peo
ple In all three ootmtle*?having
been associated with the tobac
co markets In Warren too, Hen
derson and Louisburg. The
campaign of 1966 enabled me to
make many n?w acquaintance#
QJ?* SPEED, pafe 4)
Warrenton Woman May
Oppose L. H. Fountain
A Warrenton woman is giving
serious consideration to enter
ing the second congressional
district race against encumbent
L. H. Fountain.
Mrs. T. T. Clayton, who was
endorsed as a candidate for
this position by representatives
from the 11 counties of the dis
trict at a meeting here Sat
urday, said Tuesday that while
she had made no formal reply
to the committee she is giving
the' matter serious considera
tion.
The group of 100 persons also
unanimously endorsed Dr.
Reginald Hawkins, Charlotte
Negro dentist, for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
Frank Ballanceof Warrenton,
chairman of the resolutions
committee, said, "It was the
feeling of this group that Mr.
Fountain has not represented
the majority of the citizens of
the district Including the low in
come families of the Indian,
Caucasian and Negro races."
Ballance noted that Fountain
had opposed aid to education,
anti-poverty legislation, civil
rights, rent supplements, open
housing and public welfare.
Mrs. Clayton, wife of a War
renton lawyer, was described as
a housewife and mother, a grad
uate of Johnson C. Smith Unl
verslty who got her M.S. degree
at North Carolina College and
currently is a second year law
student at the University of
North Carolina.
Bids On Welcome
Station Are Opened
Among bids /eceived by the
State Highway Commission at
its regular monthly meeting in
Raleigh last week was a bid for
the construction of a Welcome
Station in Warren County.
The bid called for grading,
paving and signing and enlarg
ing the existing roadside area
and welcome center on 1-85
about two miles south of the
Virginia State line. The low bid
was made by Rea Construction
Company of Charlotte at a cost
of $383,862.69.
All apparent low bids will be
reviewed by the Highway Com
mission when it meets in Ral
eigh on Feb. 2 at 9 a. m.
Underwater
Buck Island National Monu
ment lies entirely underwater,
the National Geographic says.
Visitors to this attraction in
the Virgin Islands snorkel above
a coral garden teeming with
tropical fish.
John Church Announces
Candidacy For House
John L. Church, delegate
from the 16th District of the
House of Representatives dur
ing the 1967 Session of the Gen
eral Assembly, has announced
his candidacy for re-election
subject to the May Democratic
Primary.
He entered his name as a can
didate for House of Represen
tatives Seat Number 2 of the
16th District last Thursday. The
1967 Session adopted a num
bered seat system for the 16th
District, and allotted two In
dividual numbered seats (1 and
2) for the District composed of
Vance, Franklin and Warren
Counties.
In his statement to thepress,
Church said: "The counties of
Vance, Franklin and Warren,
which comprise the 16th Dis
trict, have much In common
geographically, historically and
economically. Continued expan
slon of Industry, Agriculture,
Education and Recitation Is a
necessity In oar efforts to
strengthen the economy of the
District.
"encouragement from local
citizens' groups and various
'levels of government has pro
vided Impetus for our industrial
development, the benefits of
which we are Just beginning to
snjoy. Much depends upon our
legislature's maintaining a fav
orable
CHURCH
and particularly our three?
ties.
"Hie needs of Agriculture, so
vitally important to Vance,
Warren and Frshktltt Counties,
must be fully mat to further
strengthen this port of our eco
nomy. Although
member o< the House com
mittee on Agrtc
ed closely wtth
throughout the last